On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 08:34:33AM +0100, René Dudfield wrote: > Hi, > > it seemed pip used to mistake all .zip files for being source packages, > and got confused by our .mpkg.zip binaries for OSX. That has been patched > in pip now, but it might take another 5 or so years before everyone > upgrades... So, I need to know if .dmg files for OSX are ok? I seem to > recall some reason why .zip were preferred over .dmg files... but I can > not remember the reason! I think .dmg files are ok now, since major > projects like VLC etc all use .dmg files. So maybe the reason does not > exist anymore with modern OSX. I plan on creating new .dmg files from the > existing .zip files, and linking to them from the download page. > > tldr; > Are .dmg files ok for binaries on OSX now? > > cheers,
Somebody can correct me if I am wrong, but I think the problem with an unzipped .dmg file was that there was no cross-platform tool for creating a compressed .dmg file, so if you wanted tocreate a compressed .dmg and you didn't have a Mac, you couldn't. A uncompressed unencrypted .dmg file is just a disk image in HFS+ format, but the compression and encryption are special somehow. --- James Paige
